The Land Promise made to Abraham - fulfilled?

[JM]

I guess I see the "already, not yet" as Ladd would put it. :turn-l:

 

[JM]

I was thinking about that scripture last night, and don't forget Acts 15.

It's not so cut and dry.

Peace,

jm

Hey JM:

I'll stick with what God's two prophets (Nehemiah & Joshua) said about the land promise being fulfilled ALREADY.... ALL the promises fulfilled.

I get the idea you may be thinking this way also?

I had an "Old Testament" professor, when he got to what Nehemiah and Joshua said about the fullment of the land promise, he said, "this isn't true." I could have fallen over in my seat at that time! He then tried to explain "the larger land" etc.... but if you look, you will see that the prophets were right, Israel received all of it.


your servant in Messiah,
charlesj

Joshua 21:43-45
1 Kings 4:20-21
Neh. 9:7-8

Land Promises fulfilled?

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In the 47th and 48th chapters of the book of Ezekiel, the future land boudary of the 12 tribes of Israel are meticulously outlined. Ezekiel was deported to Babylon around the year 597 BC during the second siege of Jerusalem. This is very important to clarify, for if the prophecies concerning the land are given after this particular date; it would cancel out all of the previous possessions or boundaries outlined in preceding text such as the first 2 that you cited. As for the scripture you refer to in Nehemiah, the boundaries that Judah actual occupied after the return from Babylon were certainly ignominious when compared to the vast tract of land in the aforementioned text of Ez. 47 and 48. Even at the apex of the Maccabean Kingdom. Two scriptures are worth citing at this point: Keeping in mind the glory of YHWH had already departed from the city of Jerusalem as was outlined previously in Ezekiel's narrative. "...And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house. And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places..." -Ezekiel 43:4-7 And also: "... and the name of the city from that day shall be, the Lord is there..." -Ezekiel 48:35 Clearly we can see the glory of YHVH returns in the form of the Messiah: for He speaks of Himself in theanthropomorphic terms - "... the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet..." And it is also predicated that his throne and dwelling will be established among the House of Israel FOREVER. This prophecy has NEVER been fulfilled, and it is of a certainty - it will have a definite fulfillment in the future.